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Windows 7: Major BSOD Problems

I have been having major BSOD crashes. There does not seem to be a pattern. I have checked the memory with memtest86. I found one error on 1 of 4 sticks, so I replaced the pair. I also checked the hard drive with Seatools, no problems. I am uploading the dump files as per the formum. I am hoping they are correct. The dump program would not leave the files in my documents folder (ran 3 times) I finally hunted them down and have attached them.. This is REALLY getting to be a problem. Any help is appreciated.

Many of your blue screen crashes were memory related. You also had some system related crashes and hard disk related crashes. Additionally, there was a registry related crash. We do not recommend fixing registry errors using registry cleaning tools, so if you have used one in the past, let us know as it may have led to your registry blue screen crash. If not, it may be due to system file corruption or hard disk errors.

Run the following steps and post back after doing each one and wait for a response before proceeding to the next step.

Run Disk Check with both boxes checked for all HDDs and with Automatically fix file system errors checked for all SSDs.

Run the boot version of Memtest86+ paying close attention to Parts 2 and 3 of the tutorial. Also, in case Memtest86+ misses anything and comes up with no errors, run the extended version of the Windows Memory Diagnostics Tool for at least five passes. These you may want to run overnight since they take a long time to complete.

An underlying driver may be incompatible\conflicting with your system. Run Driver Verifier to find any issues. To run Driver Verifier, do the following:

If Windows cannot start in normal mode with driver verifier running, start in safe mode. If it cannot start in safe mode or normal mode, restore the system restore point using System Restore OPTION TWO.

Thanks to zigzag3143 for contributing to the Verifier steps.
If you are unable to start Windows with all drivers being verified or if the blue screen crashes fail to create .dmp files, run them in groups of 5 or 10 until you find a group that causes blue screen crashes and stores the blue screen .dmp files.

After you finish the good advice from writhziden, can you give us some information on your RAM.

D/L CPUZ and post a snip of the CPU, Mainboard, Memory, and SPD tabs.
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I have strayed a bit from the course of action laid out by Writhizden. Here's an update.
I started by running the comprehensive disk check on the C drive. It took quite a long time to run, at the end it did find and fix several disk errors. As the machine restarted from the disk check, it crashed with 3 BSODs before finally booting up Windows. After this, I decided to try and rectify the hardware issues. I ran memtest86 on the memory one stick at a time, each stick ran for 3 complete passes. It turned out one of the new sticks I had installed had numerous errors. I put together four sticks that had all been thoroughly tested. Next, I cloned the C drive to a new hard drive since the existing drive was suspect. I ran disk check on the new drive, this time following the test it booted without any BSODs. I don't think I am completely out of the woods yet, although the machine seems much more stable. Next, I will run the virus check as outlined. Following that I will move on to the driver updates and then possibly the registry error.

With regard to the registry issue, I do use CCleaner, I have for years on several of my machines and never had any problems. However, on this machine I did use the cleaning feature of Revo Uninstaller. I had a real problem with one program (VectorWorks 10), I had two botched installs and had to use the uninstaller since the program did not show up in the Windows applications dialog. Following the uninstalls I used the “junk file” cleaning feature. Maybe it went too far. I will report back after the virus check.

There are some on here who say CCleaner is alright to use for registry cleaning, but the general consensus is that all automated registry cleaning should be avoided unless it is provided as a cleanup utility by a software company for uninstalling the same software company's application (many antivirus software has these utilities, for instance).

I myself have had problems with CCleaner before. Before I knew better, I used CCleaner to clean the registry of a client's computer, and the computer would not even boot into normal mode. It froze at the Windows flag screen. I have always made backups of the registry before using registry cleaners, so I was able to restore the registry in Safe Mode and everything ran fine again. Now if I notice a registry error related problem, I will manually find the entry or entries and provide a fix.

If you need help with registry related issues (typically they show up as error boxes when Windows starts), these forums are a good resource. You can also post a thread in Performance & Maintenance to get help with optimizing your computer or manually cleaning registry errors. There are also good tutorials in that forum for optimization.

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